tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post8056867567019477040..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: San Francisco Diary--Journal Of An ExileAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-45914465937788683392010-03-19T17:49:33.724-04:002010-03-19T17:49:33.724-04:00Joel: You were right. Democrats Costa and Cardoz...Joel: You were right. Democrats Costa and Cardoza have been bribed with a 25% increase in available water (which I guess will kill only 25% more Delta smelt). As Republican Nunes (also of the Central Valley) said: "They'll give those two districts 25% more water for now in exchange for a 100% vote in favor of the health care bill."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-12587163215918200712010-03-19T12:18:08.310-04:002010-03-19T12:18:08.310-04:00WriterX: Don't give up hope. Remember, we...WriterX: Don't give up hope. Remember, we're supposed to have that victory celebration at Hoover Dam! It's early for both of our states. Although I'm rooting for the Republicans (at least two of them), I worry that Campbell's lead is more apparent than real, but I also think it will solidify as Boxer has to come out of her hidey-hole and try to explain her existence. As for McCain, I may be whistling past the graveyard, but Scott Brown was twenty points behind his Democrat opponent at about this same stage in Massachusetts. Maybe Hayworth will pull this off yet. PS: My favorite champagne is Henkel Trocken.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-8544930337041907982010-03-19T11:30:09.763-04:002010-03-19T11:30:09.763-04:00Daniel Balsam: I guess we all have our personal c...Daniel Balsam: I guess we all have our personal crusades. Frankly, I found the whole thing a little silly, but I'm sure I've had more than one person who felt the same way about some of my activities in the past. And if you succeed in stemming the tide of spam, more power to you. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned and still believe in the doctrine of <i>caveat emptor.</i> Still, if your campaign saves some foolish people from themselves, good for you.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-3570211440801734042010-03-19T10:18:23.440-04:002010-03-19T10:18:23.440-04:00LawHawk,
The California Legislature found that Ca...LawHawk,<br /><br />The California Legislature found that Californians suffer actual harm from the receipt of unlawful spam -- $1.2 billion, with a "B" -- and that was back in 2003. The spam volume has increased dramatically since then, despite the federal law too. The Legislature enacted a statute that allows recovery of $1,000 liquidated damages per spam. Spam filters? Of course I've heard of them. They're hardly foolproof, especially when spammers take steps to hide. All that takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.<br />-- Dan BalsamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-30775205388872662722010-03-19T08:40:46.693-04:002010-03-19T08:40:46.693-04:00LawHawk, let me know when to start chilling the ch...LawHawk, let me know when to start chilling the champagne for Boxer's defeat. Right now, Boxer has a better chance of losing than McCain does. Of course, I'm hopeful that McCain's chances of losing will increase exponentially in the next few months. I'm keeping an extra champagne bottle, just in case.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-13240903211377895692010-03-19T00:48:14.517-04:002010-03-19T00:48:14.517-04:00I guess that St. Louis was feeling left out in our...I guess that St. Louis was feeling left out in our bicoastal discussion of crazy cities. There is a big flap among the "city leaders" because the uniform approach of the census-taking doesn't provide special efforts to go into the high-crime areas of town (which are numerous, if I understand it correctly). We could solve the problem by replacing the temporary census-takers with the Missouri National Guard. That way they could count the thugs and practice urban warfare at the same time. <br /><br />The officials are also worried that the Bosnian community will be undercounted because they "don't trust the government." Well, either do I, but I was born here. They trusted the government enough to come here in the first place, didn't they? So if I'm understanding this correctly, we should make special provisions to allay the fears of people who don't trust the government by sending in government workers to ask questions that have nothing to do with counting the citizens.<br /><br />The St. Louis bigwigs want to make sure that the criminals and those who want nothing to do with American society are fully represented by, wait for it, Democrats. Did I miss anything?LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-68808132313029809112010-03-18T23:50:21.104-04:002010-03-18T23:50:21.104-04:00Andrew: The docks and the commercial areas around...Andrew: The docks and the commercial areas around Jack London Square might as well be surrounded by prison walls. The dock workers are too tough to be intimidated by the gangs, and the police patrol the commercial areas near the waterfront very enthusiastically.<br /><br />As for Pelosi's facelift, there are some jobs too big even for a Panamax crane. So they settled for importing tons of botox.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-41201114003872483922010-03-18T23:34:38.061-04:002010-03-18T23:34:38.061-04:00Wait a minute, they import goods through Oakland? ...Wait a minute, they import goods through Oakland? And they don't get stolen? When you first mentioned the cranes, I though they were coming to lift the health care bill. . . or Pelosi's latest botox treatment.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-73170245436619328222010-03-18T23:22:12.925-04:002010-03-18T23:22:12.925-04:00StanH: The vegan battle-royal was so ridiculous t...StanH: The vegan battle-royal was so ridiculous that even our lefty local TV stations showed the pie-in-the-eye shots. But they still haven't told us what chili pie tastes like.<br /><br />Newsom actually knows what it's like to start at the bottom and succeed on your own, even though he seemed to have forgotten it for awhile. He comes from a working-class family, and despite suffering from serious dyslexia, managed to work his way through Santa Clara University. He worked for others at ordinary jobs such as cleaning bathrooms and clearing asbestos. <br /><br />He was looking for another job when he ran into an old friend, Gordon Getty (yes, the Getty family). Getty had written a rather unknown opera entitled "Plump Jack," and Newsom had worked on a serious business plan to open a wine and spirits shop. They settled on "Plump Jack" as the name for the shop. It eventually evolved into a small chain of restaurants, also called the Plump Jack Cafe. Newsom successfully took Getty's investment and parlayed it into several successful businesses. But he never lost his sense of what it was like to struggle. Once a month, he would award a $50 gift certificate to a business plan that failed. Newsom said at the time "there is no success without failure."<br /><br />Newsom caught the political bug when he hosted a fundraiser at his Plump Jack Cafe for then mayoral candidate Willie Brown in 1995. His businesses have been successful enough that he has remained an honest politician outside the radical leftist inner circle and and free from the City Hall kleptocracy.<br /><br />Campbell pulling ahead of the Gorgon, even though it's early, is a very, very good sign. If DeVore loses, which seems likely at least at this point, I believe he will actively support Campbell in the general election. The spoiler here is Fiorina. She has some very odd views, and seems to have a personal dislike for Campbell (remember "demon sheep?"). I would be surprised, though not shocked, if she threw her support to Boxer. Since she has no credentials as either a Republican or a conservative, I don't think that would make much difference either way.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-60288846625849511882010-03-18T21:58:35.169-04:002010-03-18T21:58:35.169-04:00That’s cool with the ships, fun to watch!
It’s to...That’s cool with the ships, fun to watch!<br /><br />It’s too bad that Keith and her attackers didn’t get into a death match, the world would be a better place. <br /><br />What did Gavin Newsome do, I know he was some kind of a success in business?<br /><br />Loser pays I believe would help with frivolous law suits.<br /><br />It’s good to see Campbell ahead, even this early it bodes well for the rest of the country.StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-79066112629851694012010-03-18T20:28:30.076-04:002010-03-18T20:28:30.076-04:00CalFed: I understand exactly what you mean. Our st...CalFed: I understand exactly what you mean. Our state budget crisis is a looming disaster for all Californians. But in some parts of California we're no worse off than much of the rest of the country. People in the Central Valley are suffering very real, very serious, and very current financial disaster. And for the rest of the state, the destruction of California's huge and productive food belt will mean the wolf is getting ready to knock on the door of those who think this isn't their problem. Agriculture and related activities are among California's largest producers of both wealth and abundance. How do our geniuses in D.C. and Sacramento plan on replacing that goldmine of taxes? On second thought, don't answer that.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-5540380272500174472010-03-18T19:47:13.084-04:002010-03-18T19:47:13.084-04:00LawHawk. Folks in the San Joaquin Valley are watc...LawHawk. Folks in the San Joaquin Valley are watching every candidate, Democrat or Republican, very closely. In most elections, there's some room for moderation. Not this time. Obama and the arrogant bureaucrats in the EPA are one step away from turning the Valley into the dustbowl that accompanied the great depression. Only this time, the disaster doesn't come from nature, it comes from politicians and green-goblins who have taken the abundant resource of water, and turned off the spigot to protect a fish nobody outside the EPA gives a crap about. No compromises this time.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284025222779154243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-86130792161140632922010-03-18T18:56:22.981-04:002010-03-18T18:56:22.981-04:00LawHawk,
Mine is not cut with that brain-damagin...LawHawk, <br /><br />Mine is not cut with that brain-damaging stuff that seems to be infested with all things SF. Pure Tennessean MowMow. They have a patch close by where I live. They also have a still up there to disguise it as Tennessee Tea, but transporting it has become problematical. The revenoors keep on mistaking it for 'shine.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-32371656703784722372010-03-18T18:50:52.672-04:002010-03-18T18:50:52.672-04:00Joel: Thanks, but I think I can get it locally at...Joel: Thanks, but I think I can get it locally at the medical marijuana shop. It's the actual major ingredient in the most popular brand: "Meowie Wowie." Or maybe it was "Acapurrco Gold."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64937212659844734412010-03-18T18:45:10.201-04:002010-03-18T18:45:10.201-04:00LawHawk,
Do you need some black market catnip? I ...LawHawk,<br /><br />Do you need some black market catnip? I have a source. Let me know. The password is two mows. Not meows, mows.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56843887127751422242010-03-18T18:44:10.185-04:002010-03-18T18:44:10.185-04:00Joel: I am convinced that Obama meant what he sai...Joel: I am convinced that Obama meant what he said about "fundamentally transforming America." If the lives of a few thousand farmers and workers get in the way, tough. All businesses are corrupt, and capitalism is an evil system which must be attacked from within and without. Destroying America's breadbasket by causing it to dry up and wither away into the desert it once was is a small price to pay for getting government control over every facet of our lives and deaths.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-33711779754056865262010-03-18T18:41:24.773-04:002010-03-18T18:41:24.773-04:00Tennessee,
Maybe Andrew might help you out with t...Tennessee,<br /><br />Maybe Andrew might help you out with that kitty thing.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-6858115665918494162010-03-18T18:39:29.585-04:002010-03-18T18:39:29.585-04:00Tennessee: Look at the bright side. The greenie ...Tennessee: Look at the bright side. The greenie weenies can cut off all the lights at night and the loading and unloading can still go on by the light of the glowing cranes.<br /><br />I'm still trying to figure out what vegans think our canine teeth and incisors are for. I'm sure nature didn't provide us with those so we could rip open the flesh of peaches and pears.<br /><br />You deal with Kitty Kelly. I already got a notice of hearing from the Labor Board. Something about primitive working conditions. From what I can tell, I guess state law says I must provide at least two sofas and an antique silk-covered side chair as a scratching-post for each cat employed. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-21400820565922852552010-03-18T18:37:55.490-04:002010-03-18T18:37:55.490-04:00LawHawk,
What gets me about it, is the arrogance ...LawHawk,<br /><br />What gets me about it, is the arrogance of the administration. After cutting off water, there-by destroying farmers, offer some of it back for votes. By what right do these people have to hold a figurative gun to our heads? It might as well be a gun in a literal sense. I don't know about you, but my hatred for all things Obama has grown.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39136779333535366352010-03-18T18:32:47.531-04:002010-03-18T18:32:47.531-04:00Joel: You're ahead of me on that one. It wou...Joel: You're ahead of me on that one. It would take one helluva lot of water being released to buy the vote of any Central Valley politician. All conservative candidates (largely Republican, of course) who are running for office in the Central Valley are pointing out the arrogance of the federal government, and particularly its bureaucracy at the EPA, as a bludgeon against the smelt-lovers. I know of no politician in the Central Valley who could be bought off with a little water, but that doesn't mean there aren't some. California voters are angry, but those in the Central Valley are <i>really</i> angry. For them, this is not a theoretical battle. It's genuine survival. <br /><br />Farmers are experiencing bankruptcies at a rate unrivaled since the Great Depression, and farm workers, along with all the business-owners and employees that depend on them, are already standing in the lines at what is equivalent to depression-era soup kitchens. Obama may be able to buy a vote or two, but it won't produce enough water for any health care sellout to wash off the tar and feathers which will surely follow.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-60381083427120020292010-03-18T18:15:31.820-04:002010-03-18T18:15:31.820-04:00I had a friend tell me that most of today's cu...I had a friend tell me that most of today's cutlery comes from slightly tainted (radiologically speaking) steel from China. That begs the question of whether the cranes will glow in the dark, I suppose.<br /><br />As for the Vegans, if I had my way, I would get some seals to grab them and stuffy every orafice of their stupid little bodies with chile peppers. (See how calm and reasonable I am.)<br /><br />I got a notice of suit from some crazy character claiming to be an attorney for a Miss Kitty Kelly. I need a lawyer, Law Hawk.Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-80981647622831182462010-03-18T18:10:05.396-04:002010-03-18T18:10:05.396-04:00LawHawk,
Sounds like interesting politics.
Wha...LawHawk, <br /><br />Sounds like interesting politics. <br /><br />What has happened with the water to the central valley? I heard that the Feds were letting some water out in exchange for votes for ObamaCare. Any politicians using the hold-up of water as a campaign point?Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.com